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The agrarian crisis in the arid Marathwada region of Maharashtra is deepening and as many as 93 farmers have reportedly committed suicide since January 1, 2015. Successive droughts, hailstorm in 2014 and faulty agriculture policy are all contributing to the ...IBN Live, 18 hours ago

Forty-five days, 93 suicides. 2015 has started quite ominously for farmers in the perennially parched Marathwada region in Maharashtra and activists blamed the fickle weather and the delay in release of government compensation for this. Last ...

Proposed PPP in irrigation may prove disastrous as control of water may pass into private hands Chronic drought is becoming a way of life in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra. Successive budgets, Central and State alike, have failed to address this ...

NAGPUR: Pradip Apte, a member of the Vijay Kelkar committee which prepared a report on regional imbalances in Maharashtra, has made a starling revelation that earlier panels had adopted wrong methodology to calculate the backlog of Vidarbha and ...

Sakaram Rathod with his grandchildren near Dhamoni. (Source: Express Photo) At first, the hush over Dhamoni village in Parbhani district appears to be of noon siesta, but then the padlocked doors appear. The annual seasonal migration in search of ...

Festival of 'Mahashivratri' was celebrated with traditional enthusiasm and religious fervour by devotees who observed fasts and held prayers to lord Shiva across Marathwada today. In Aurangabad city, devotees turned up in large numbers at the famous ...

Transforming lives of the poor and needy in this drought-prone Marathwada region of Maharashtra, the Hedgewar Hospital, founded here 25 years ago by a team of seven altruistic doctors, strives to provide a new meaning to holistic healthcare not just ...

MUMBAI: While the row over VHP's Ghar Wapsi campaign rages on, a Marathwada-based social organization has undertaken a mass campaign to convert OBCs to Buddhism in Maharashtra. I have set a target to convert at least five lakh people to Buddhism ...

Pune: The Members of Parliament (MPs) from seven Lok Sabha constituencies in western and central Maharashtra and Marathwada demanded for augmentation of rail infrastructure, doubling of tracks and additional trains ahead of the forthcoming railway ...